The Saedicio clan's island was large and dead. There was no trees or plants and it had rocky terrain once you were off of the beach. The main house was on a high cliff and unless you apparated straight in or right next to it you had a high climb up. When the rival clans started attacking anti-apparation and teleportation wards were put up by the few vampire wizards to keep the enemies away from the main house and younger natural born children who were still training. That was about half a hour ago and the most of the enemies were at least halfway to the house if not already there. Unfortunately, the wards kept out allies too so when Harry and his family appeared they were on the beach looking up at the cliff.
Harry turned and looked at Ana when they realized the climb ahead of them. "Go ahead, we'll be there in a little bit."
Ana nodded and hugged him before changing into a raven and flying off. Harry looked to the girls and smirked. "Race you there!"
All three turned to their main animangus forms and took off toward the cliffs. Nicole ran the fastest, because of her size, with Harry following, then Electra. When they got to the bottom of the cliff they were met with 50 vampires already fighting. Not bothering to change from their forms they pounced on random rivals, biting and clawing if necessary.
Harry looked up from the vampire he was standing on and made eye contact with Nicole. The panther nodded her head then disappeared to the side. Harry turned to his side and jumped at a Brutince' member, putting his paw on the man's head as he came back down and slamming it on the hard ground. He then turned and ran toward the cliff wall. Out of the battle the panther and nundu appeared, then turned back to normal. The girls ran to Harry and climbed onto his back.
"Go up slow so we can hit them Leo. Let us off on the ledge three-quarters of the way up."
The normal playful Electra sounded serious and commanding and Harry gave a answering growl before shooting up. If the sight of a flying black panther wasn't enough to make the climbers scared enough to loose their grip the hexes of the twins sure were and soon the air was filled with the screams of those falling to their death. They reached the wide ledge where a few fighters were trying to push each other off and the girls jumped on it while Harry changed back.
Harry jumped into a battle with a Masechen vampire who had just pushed off a Saedicio.
The Masechen punched Harry's chest knocking the wind out of him. Harry quickly recovered and aimed a kick towards his opponent ribs cracking a few off them, then immediately punched him hard in the same spot shattering them. Deciding to end the fight quickly Harry reached up and twisted the guys neck before throwing the body down, watching as it knocked down a climbing Brutince' with it. He then moved his gaze to the beach where about fifty deatheaters had just appeared. He turned and saw Nicole stunning down rivals overhead while Electra watched her back.
Harry ran over to them, carelessly shoving a vampire off the ledge that was fighting a Anguigena. "They keep teleporting in! Where are they coming from?"
"I don't know! We need to find Master to see if we can fix it!"
Harry nodded before changing to a semi-nundu and having the girls climb on. He once again shot up the cliff, not stopping until they reached the top. The girls got off and ran toward the house where Ana was and Harry sniffed out the Master before flying to the back of the house.
The courtyard in the back was large and made of stone with statues of the some of the most powerful vampires, wizards and other creatures at each corner. The Master was surrounded by a group of deatheaters in the center, but was clearly winning by the number of dead ones on the ground. Harry landed in the shadows and changed back before calmly leaning against a large statue of Salazar Slytherin, ready to jump in when needed. The Master was having fun toying with the deatheaters, shooting a spell or two before moving so quickly to a different spot it seemed like teleportation.
Harry watched for a moment before remembering the ongoing sea of enemies coming up the cliff. He conjured his bow from the elven village and his enchanted silver arrow that was made with venom at its tip and to return to its owner when called. He aimed it at a group of deatheaters that almost seemed lined up just for the occasion and let it go. The arrow easily cut through all of them killing seven and leaving three mortally wounded before returning to Harry's hand. The Master realized Harry's hurry and easily killed off the remaining deatheaters.
"They keep coming! They have reinforcements together somewhere!"
The Master nodded before picking up a young Brutince' vampire. "Bring her back Harry. Just for a minute."
Harry nodded nervously before placing a hand over the dead vampire's heart and head. A black light seeped out from where their skin was in contact. A moment later a panting Harry pulled away and the Brutince' member opened her eyes. The Master immediately looked into them and went into her mind. The Master looked up after a second and put the barley alive vampire back down.
"There's a boat about fifty miles off the shore. It appears to be small but they're housing the deatheaters in there. They're getting messages from the vampires and deatheaters already on the island for when to send the next wave." The Master talked quickly and seemed to be holding something back.
"Electra and I will take care of it."
The Master nodded before running toward the house. Harry watched the retreating back before looking back at the fallen vampire. She was barely breathing now and Harry put his hand on her heart and seeped a bit more life into her. It was easier than bringing her back to life, but it still took some energy out of him. He lifted her up slightly and looked into her unfocused violet eyes before he probed into her mind.
He saw a series of images from the vampires life. Being read to by her parents. Playing with a young muggle child when she was six. Talking with her friends at thirteen on the phone. Going to a dance when she was seventeen with her boyfriend. A storm.. The limo crashing into a ravine. Her crawling to the side with a piece of metal going through shoulder. Waking up in a bed with vampires hovering over her. Vowing to stay devoted to those who saved her. Training. Falling in love with a fellow turned vampire. Finding out she was pregnant. Looking up at the cliff three years later.
Harry shuddered as he backed out of her mind. The young women was foolish. She didn't know what the vampire battle was about, but still dove in to help, throwing away her life in the process. But, Harry couldn't help but feel sympathy for her. It seemed like the sort of thing he would have done if he wasn't raised like he was.
Deciding to do it fast so he couldn't stop himself, he covered her head and heart again before putting more life into her. Once her eyes became focused and her breathing less shallow, she looked up and seemed to realize he wasn't with their side because she tried to back up. She failed miserably. Harry held her still and looked straight at her.
"Go home. Get your daughter and try to find your husband. If he's still alive, good. If not, I'm sorry. Either way you will leave that coven and you will find out the real reason for this rivalry. If I ever see you like this again I will not bring you back and your daughter won't have you. Remember that."
The women nodded and once again tried to get up. Seeing she was as weak as him Harry grabbed a nearby deatheater and threw one of his wrist to her while drinking from the other. Once she had all her strength and Harry most of his they stood up.
"Run to the side of the house. Climb up to the second window to the left. That used to be my room. There should be some floo powder on top of the fireplace. If anybody sees you tell them Leo sent you there. Hurry up."
The women nodded before turning away. She was a few yards away when she turned around again and said, "My name is Camile Darren. I owe you my life. If we meet again I'll try and help you with what you need."
Harry nodded and the women disappeared around the side of the house. He felt proud. It was the first time he had actually risen a human completely from the dead. Sure it was a rival clan member, but that didn't really faze him. The world wasn't black and white. Even if she was a Brutince' vampire, she had a daughter with violet eyes and black hair, a husband who was smitten with her at first sight, and a future. She was from a rival clan, but that didn't made her evil.
He quickly ran into the house to find Electra. It was eerie seeing the house he lived in for a few months in ruins. There weren't many fighters in there, but scars of the previous battles were clear. Blackened tapestries, broken furniture, blood staining the floor. It was a world away from the lively home it had been a few weeks ago.
Harry found Electra conjuring serpents and ordering to go after certain people in the corner of the room. Harry smiled at her typical antics and ran over to her.
"There's a boat off the shore holding deatheaters. We need to get rid of them."
Electra nodded and followed him outside. The smell of the bodies made them gag, but Harry quickly turned to his semi-nundu and took off with Electra on his back. Once they were in the air they could easily see the boat and Harry soared to it in a matter of minutes.
Harry landed on the deck silently as Electra stunned the few watchers on deck. Harry turned back as she crept toward the door leading below and joined her. Both peered into the window on the door. None of the deatheaters had their masks on and all were older and obviously veterans. This put Harry at ease, as he had been getting more reluctant to kill everyone on the boat after Camile. If they were veterans they had been doing this for a long time and deserved what was coming to them.
Harry turned toward Electra and was about to signal for her to attack when a searing pain came to both of them on their forearms. Underneath their clothes their tribal tattoos were burning brightly. Someone close to both of them was in trouble and was calling for help.
"Quick and clean?"
Electra nodded and both turned to their nundu forms(or semi-nundu in Harry's case), Harry setting up an anti-apparation ward over the boat before doing so. Once in their animangus forms, Electra put her paw to the window and easily broke it while Harry bowed down and put his mouth to the gap underneath the door. Both took a deep breath and released it.
The deatheater who heard the glass shatter was first to go. He was nearing the door and within a yard of it, clutched his head which was now burning in fever and fell to his knees. Harry and Electra left after that and less than five minutes later the man was dead from the disease with the rest of the deatheaters dropping like flies next to him
Nicole had taken the job of conjuring and ordering snakes after her sister left when her arm started burning. She looked around herself frantically, before calmly reasoning who was in trouble. The idea of the Master needing help was insane and with Electra and Harry together them needing help was unlikely too. Uncle Kylen was too proud to call for help so that only left Anastasia.
She ran outside where she had last seen Ana and searched for her. Overhead she heard the flapping of wings and saw Harry and her sister heading for a spot between the edge of the cliff and the side of the house where the entrance to the basement was. Nicole turned to a panther and ran underneath them to the secluded battle.
Upon reaching the spot she saw Kylen already fighting against a batch of vampires and deatheaters. The entrance to the basement was already half blown up, but Kylen was set right infront of it, determined to stop anyone or anyone else from entering. Nicole bowled over a couple of deatheaters and neared the basement. Hearing cries she dove in to help the natural born children from anyone who had already gotten in. Once she was in she immediately pounced on and bit a Brutince' vampire who was fighting two kids who looked about eleven before turning to her normal state. Electra appeared next to her and cursed a rival vampire. As Nicole approached another vampire a growl of rage could be heard overhead from her cousin.
"Whatever idiots who made him mad are going to wish they were dead," Nicole thought as she twisted the neck of the male vampire. It was a nice favor if you considered what Harry would've done to him at the moment.
Harry turned the second Electra was off his back and ran to Kylen. He was halfway there when he almost tripped over a body on the ground.
"Dammit!"
He straightened himself back up and was about to run again when the rising red sun blinded him. Out of the corner of his eyes he could see natural born vampires that were fighting raise their collars higher in an attempt to block the light from their more sensitive skin. Up ahead he saw Electra abandon fighting outside and dive into the basement to help her sister which meant she hadn't taken her potion before she left. None of this really registered to Harry, however. His eyes were glued to the body's wrist. Or actually what was on the wrist. It was a simple silver bracelet with a emerald and two diamonds. It was beautiful, but that wasn't what caught his attention. It was the fact that he had made it when he was thirteen. And had given it to Ana that Christmas.
He let out a growl of rage that sent chills up everyone surrounding him spines as his eyes traveled up the still arm and to Ana's face. His beautiful Aunt's face was covered in cuts and blood from both herself and enemies. Her eyes were opened staring straight ahead and her hair was sprawled out beneath her. Her leg was bent at an odd angle and her arm was draped across her stomach as if she had been holding an injury before she fell. A look of pain was still on her face.
Someone had killed his Aunt Ana. The women who taught him to draw. The person who stayed with him everytime he had been injured no matter how small the case. Who helped save him for a life full of abuse and gave him one full of family and love. A women who acted as his mother. Someone killed her. So he would kill them.
All reason left Harry as he looked back up from his Aunt. His fangs were clearly displayed and his eyes were an icy green. All mercy in him was gone and he ran into the middle of the battle, immediately bringing his fist into a deatheater's skull, cracking it. He then rounded on another and punched him in the stomach sending a strong cutting hex as he did so a large hole ripped through the unfortunate deatheater. The terrifying scene continued with Harry tearing limbs off and killing enemies left and right. A few minutes later the grounds cleared from enemies either dying, falling or retreating. As the Saedicio clan and Anguigena clan gained the upper hand following Harry, Kylen killed off the last vampire he was fighting and the girls emerged from the basement where all the rivals had been taken care of.
"Harry!"
Hearing their voices and knowing they found Ana, Harry pushed the vampire he had been fighting over the cliff and ran to his family. The girls were on their knees next to her with thier hoods up and Kylen was panting with tears running down his cheeks. Harry dropped next to her head and gently wiped off the blood from her face. Her face was lit with the warm glow from the morning sun and the beautiful women was once again visible underneath the dirt and blood. Nicole's head shot up and she stared at him for a second. Her eyes widened and she clutched at his arm.
"Bring her back, Leo. Please."
Harry's breath quickened as he looked at the body. He felt like throwing himself off the cliff for going to fight when he should have stayed. He put his hands over her heart and head and put all the life he could into her. He didn't stop when the warmth on his hands went from coming from the sun to coming from the contact nor when he felt her chest slowly start moving beneath him. He only stopped when soft hands removed his hands. He looked up wearily into Ana's open dark brown eyes and slowly fell from exhaustion. His face landed into the crook of her neck and his tears mixed with the blood and dirt on both of them while arms gently held him.
"Harry?"
"Ana."
Author's note:
I was going to put Hogwarts in this chapter, but it didn't really seem to fit so I'm saving it for the next. Sorry. At least I updated fast. I had read over the story and realized the Harry-Ana relationship was ignored so I increased the battle seen to include the last leg instead of ending it on the boat and going to Hogwarts. Next chapter will be up in a few days.